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Post by jawzy on May 26, 2022 15:35:32 GMT
I actually started an Ipswich goer, was enjoying it but i read something about Gillingham the following day. and thought why did i not try or look at them first, but that wasnt a goer, and for some reason in my late night wisdom i deleted both the gillingham and ipswich starts. So cant go back to the 10 games in.
Might be a blessing as i forgot how gruelling/daunting that 46 game league season can be , so maybe a championship sid should be something i look at instead, as one step closer to the Lesser spotted woodpecker...err premier league.
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Post by 80slovechild on May 30, 2022 4:41:36 GMT
I actually started an Ipswich goer, was enjoying it but i read something about Gillingham the following day. and thought why did i not try or look at them first, but that wasnt a goer, and for some reason in my late night wisdom i deleted both the gillingham and ipswich starts. So cant go back to the 10 games in. Might be a blessing as i forgot how gruelling/daunting that 46 game league season can be , so maybe a championship sid should be something i look at instead, as one step closer to the Lesser spotted woodpecker...err premier league. As ithappens I've restarted the save I was posting on here. Will get a new thread up later today. Those leagues with a ton of games puts me off, Brazil being the standard barer for massively long seasons.
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Post by jawzy on May 31, 2022 21:35:30 GMT
Monterosi are from a large village of around 4,000 Yup a 550 capacity stadium, that cannot be expanded. in real life they have been playing 24 miles away in a bigger stadium
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Post by jawzy on Jun 1, 2022 11:49:39 GMT
a reason to struggle onwards?
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Post by jawzy on Jun 1, 2022 22:15:59 GMT
transfers in for the season
out this should be next to impossible next season!
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Post by jawzy on Jun 1, 2022 22:22:10 GMT
moving to a 5k stadia while waiting for completion
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Post by jawzy on Jun 3, 2022 1:01:37 GMT
serie b going well so far considering, i was expecting to be worse than como
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Post by Dirk Nowitzki on Jun 5, 2022 9:12:18 GMT
Having some fun in Bulgaria trying to knock Ludogorets off their perch, and then this happened in the Conference League: United got taken down by a 16 year old kid!
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Post by jawzy on Jun 5, 2022 21:06:13 GMT
is he an incrediable 16 yr old or just a i scored my first goal to never score again type?
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Post by jawzy on Jun 6, 2022 0:41:52 GMT
beat alessendri in a playout to avoid going back to serie C
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Post by Dirk Nowitzki on Jun 7, 2022 20:43:00 GMT
is he an incrediable 16 yr old or just a i scored my first goal to never score again type? He's turning into quite the beast! Gotta love players with high professionalism. He is significantly better now than when he scored this goal. This is from about 1,5 seasons of progress:
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 7, 2022 21:40:10 GMT
He looks pretty fantastic.
It's been over a month since I've even thought about touching FM. Between Elden Ring, Planet Zoo, CM01/02, work and a shitty sciatica flare up.
I was really enjoying my Shelbourne save but it's maybe been too long to go back and pick it back up. A journeyman could be fun, but it's trying to figure out where to start and whether or not Add/Remove leagues actually works as a feature these days
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Post by chaodck on Jun 8, 2022 18:50:47 GMT
So, I'm back into the game. This week I decided to start a new save, something to rekindle myself with the game. I started thinking about what I wanted and decided that a nice rags to riches save is always something charming, I'll maybe get some transfer restrictions at some point, maybe not. I've done one of these in the recent games in a few countries, Netherlands (NEC), England (Wrexham), Germany (Tebe Berlin) and Spain in a Succession save (Deportivo), so the choice ended up being France or Italy. I took a look at teams and decided for Italy, starting with Ravenna in Serie D. I've just finished my first season and I ravaged through Serie D. The Ravenna squad is fairly strong for the level, and I lucked out in the transfers, snatching former Milan kid Hachim Mastour and a few other interesting players. As I said we dominated the division, and won the title with 5-6 games to go. Thing is, winning the title doesn't provide immediate promotion, as you still need to play in a playoff against other teams from the other groups. We qualified directly for the Final, and faced Badese, who had won the "Girone E", by around 6 points. I was confident though, seeing how we dominated our league. We won 5-1 on aggregate and got promoted to Serie C. The squad is fairly strong for the level and I think we even can compete for a playoff position in Serie C by making a few adjustments. Marco Guidone was by far our top player, a goalscoring machine. The Board granted us Professional Status for next season, and also a decent budget to try and improve the squad. We're currently spending around €57k on wages, and the new budget is €150k plus around €90k for transfer budget. With those numbers, we're sure to find a few players to improve or try and get some good young players on loans.
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 8, 2022 21:41:35 GMT
Well your save is a wee bit more focused than mine chaodckStarted a journeyman and figured I'd start somewhere out the way and opted for Oceania. Didn't realise that all the files worked except New Zealand, so I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get the step up to get out of this continent though. I've loaded Australia, but I'm thinking I might need to be a bit less ambitious, get a few south east Asian leagues loaded and try to end up somewhere like that before expanding into Asia. Landed on my feet, relatively at least, with Papua New Guinea's Hekari United. We should win the league and the club have even won the OFC Champions League back in 2010. Doing well there might be my ticket to better rep, but I cant find a way of seeing the star rating of that competition, so we'll see. This probably wont last, but it's worth a shot.
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Post by jawzy on Jun 9, 2022 14:45:57 GMT
I hadnt played in italy for ages that playoff in serie c was brutal,but we kept getting results.
obv notbeing able sign non eu from abroad in italy serie c/b makes the save harder as I often would sign players fom all over the world or even england, closest to england I can get is Irish players
you could probably get to india or hing kong or indonesia second tier from oceaninic success i imagine
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 9, 2022 22:19:55 GMT
I'm not gonna get too into posting about this save until I get out of Oceania, because I'm not super confident but we'll see. I guess I could go super low Asia, like a Sri Lanka/Maldives/Northern Mariana etc, but I'm hoping that doesn't have to be the case. I've added the likes of Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia for now, as well as the 2nd tier of some of the bigger Asian nations, so we'll see what happens. Gonna continue at Hekari whilst I can get some success and work on my coaching badges, as apparently these do play a big part in job progression. We won the league convincingly last year, losing 1 game, scoring 45 goals and conceding 10 in the 14 game league stage and then beat previously unbeaten Lae City in the nationwide playoff final. We made it to the OFC Champions League final thanks to some solid performances. We managed to avoid Auckland City after the group stage, they were knocked out by Henderson Eels who would go on to beat us in the final on penalties. Shows that continental success could be on the cards though! Don't think I'll be able to move on after one season, at least not in a meaningful way, so we move on to next season hoping to repeat the same.
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Post by jawzy on Jun 9, 2022 23:05:43 GMT
Dont go northern mariana. Iirc no cl or afc qualification
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 9, 2022 23:08:54 GMT
Dont go northern mariana. Iirc no cl or afc qualification Yeah, my plan ideally is to avoid somewhere like that and maybe manage to sneak a wee back door entry into Asia via somewhere like Singapore etc, but we'll need to wait and see. I'm hoping that another season with Hekari and a little luck could see us win the league again and the OFC CL, which might be enough to get me a few interviews at least, especially if I keep requesting new coaching badges at every opportunity. Just got my request for National A Licence accepted
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Post by chaodck on Jun 10, 2022 2:24:04 GMT
Good job lads! I ended up having a fantastic pre-season, nabbing a lot of good players and started up Serie C with 3 wins. I'll see if I get half done by tomorrow and post a quick update.
Cheers!
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Post by chaodck on Jun 10, 2022 2:25:44 GMT
I hadnt played in italy for ages that playoff in serie c was brutal,but we kept getting results. obv notbeing able sign non eu from abroad in italy serie c/b makes the save harder as I often would sign players fom all over the world or even england, closest to england I can get is Irish players you could probably get to india or hing kong or indonesia second tier from oceaninic success i imagine Yeah, that playoff seems a bit crazy. My objective for this season is to try and sneak into it, then see what happens. Realistically we're far from Serie B level and it'd require a huge investment to get there quality-wise. Another year at Serie C would do us good and allow time for a few young prospects to develop.
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Post by jawzy on Jun 10, 2022 10:19:39 GMT
Loans loans loans. Sure limited to domestic higher tiered loans. But its possible to get unlimited from abroad. Tho the wages can end up being the crux of a loan move.
When in C i had 2 man u eu youngsters with no wage contributions.
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 10, 2022 22:57:37 GMT
We're now in the OFC Champions League this season for some reason. I'm not sure if it's a calendar issue, and winning the league last season qualifies us for next seasons competition or what, but we're not there this year and the teams that are there makes no sense.
Not sure if it's a glitch or something else. Guess I'll maybe get to see if I don't get a move away. Still hoping that I can move on at the end of the current season though.
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 11, 2022 7:55:40 GMT
Despite the confusion around the OCL, it's been a pretty good season. We had 8 players away with the national team for the Morobe United matchm which wasn't ideal, but we got there. We've had a bunch of players leave who wouldn't renew their contracts, and I've never really bothered with transfers given how easy things have been. I'm going to try and look for a new job over the summer and see if I can get something. Currently working on the Continental C coaching licence, and a 1.5* continental rating, I'd applied for the Bengaluru job at one point last season and was knocked back, which I had expected, but they didn't laugh off my interest so hopefully there is going to be an avenue out of Oceania for me sooner rather than later! Well:
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Post by Mikey on Jun 11, 2022 16:22:53 GMT
I always found the Oceania Champions League interesting, but bloody confusing!
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Post by jawzy on Jun 11, 2022 18:19:30 GMT
We're now in the OFC Champions League this season for some reason. I'm not sure if it's a calendar issue, and winning the league last season qualifies us for next seasons competition or what, but we're not there this year and the teams that are there makes no sense. Not sure if it's a glitch or something else. Guess I'll maybe get to see if I don't get a move away. Still hoping that I can move on at the end of the current season though. oh noes, feels like i saw this also happening in xmls within fm21 too though >_>
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Post by jawzy on Jun 11, 2022 18:22:48 GMT
ahh you got Indian super League too. oddly, ive never been inspired by indian super league in various xmls, I alway feel the finances dont seem to reflect right considering the sorts of players that end up there. Lion Sailors fc in singapore have a cheatcode player contracted until 2024 - he is there in real life on big wages and in fm has a value of about 4m, best player in singapore by miles!
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 11, 2022 18:57:31 GMT
jawzy it would appear that it picks teams somewhat randomly for the OFC, at least from PNG. I thought it might be something to do with calendar year, but it's not. Port Moresby have been there for the last two seasons, despite never even reaching the playoffs. It's only the Indian I-League, unfortunately. I was just happy to take any chance to get out of Oceania, always felt like that would be my big hurdle. After that, there shouldn't be a barrier to entry anywhere else like it. Funnily enough, during the interview process they asked me why I'd go there when I could have my pick of better teams, but nobody else had come close to being remotely interested in me. I'll keep an eye on other jobs in the mean time, but I imagine it's going to be at least 1 season here, if not more. Lopes looks a really decent player (I've got attribute masking on for once), he's just went to Saudi Arabia on a free after winning the league in Singapore.
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 11, 2022 22:42:45 GMT
First season in India is complete: A very solid first season. We were actually top for a large portion of the season, but dropped points in 2 of the last 5 games. However, that's still very solid for a team that's only meant to be mid table. I'm not entirely sure if this qualifies us for anything, as the rules screen doesn't show, but it would be good for my reputation if it did. I can't seem to ask for any more coaching courses as the last one bugged out. Hopefully that will fix itself after either the season reset of a team change. EDIT: Apparently there's a post season "federations cup" in India, so I've still got that to play.
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Post by jawzy on Jun 11, 2022 23:01:55 GMT
Not seeing East Bengal or Bagan in the indian league is weird. ive actually not simmed or seen india being played since both teams went. i only seem to recognise Churchill Aizawl and Arrows
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 12, 2022 9:14:22 GMT
Not seeing East Bengal or Bagan in the indian league is weird. ive actually not simmed or seen india being played since both teams went. i only seem to recognise Churchill Aizawl and Arrows Yeah, I had the same thing with Dempo. Used to manage them or Mohun Bagan, and now ones in the Super League and the other decided to go play regional league football. Indian football seems to have a super weird structure to it.
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